Fluval spec v startup
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hit_the_gap
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i have been looking to start one up as well, but concerned about the maintenance. any chance you could run through the necessities or must haves to run a successful nano?
stumpy277
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So tank is 1 month old now.. used 3lbs Carib sea live sand....4.5lbs live figi rock....the rock was clean and reseaded at the lfs. No die off so there wasn't much of a cycle. I purchased a small zoanthid to test the stock led . Zoanthid seemed to like it ...opened all day and looking bright and happy I had a huge copepod outbreak after about 2 weeks. I've since removed the stock sponge from the back and replaced with chemi pure blue and some floss I swap out every water change...my water change consists of about 40% every 5 days.
hit_the_gap
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do you get a ton of evaporation and salinity?
Harris3005
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That's a female but I agree it definitely looks hungry[emoji6]
Does she eat frozen foods? If not I'd be buying as many Copepods as I could!
JaimeAdams
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Mandarin in a pico tank is not advisable. There simply isn't enough rock and sand to support the pod population that a mandarin needs to survive. That being said if you raised pods else where or bought them and added them very frequently you could do it.
My first coral tank was a Fluval Spec V. I really loved that tank. It was the easiest tank to maintain that I ever owned. I simply topped it off once or twice a day with bottled water and did big water changes. Granted I only had a couple snails and hermits and no fish so I didn't have much of a bio load. I did not use the factory light I switched it out with a small 2 bulb T-5 and grew coral very well.
My first coral tank was a Fluval Spec V. I really loved that tank. It was the easiest tank to maintain that I ever owned. I simply topped it off once or twice a day with bottled water and did big water changes. Granted I only had a couple snails and hermits and no fish so I didn't have much of a bio load. I did not use the factory light I switched it out with a small 2 bulb T-5 and grew coral very well.
JaimeAdams
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Neat video. Glad to see her eating. How many times a day do you feed her?
One of the reasons that mandarins are are so difficult to keep is because they have a super high metabolism and need to basically constantly eat throughout the day. You can buy captive bred mandarins that will eat pellets and/or frozen but unless you are feeding them every hour they still need a high population of pods to be grazing on all day.
One of the reasons that mandarins are are so difficult to keep is because they have a super high metabolism and need to basically constantly eat throughout the day. You can buy captive bred mandarins that will eat pellets and/or frozen but unless you are feeding them every hour they still need a high population of pods to be grazing on all day.
